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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-04-01
Che Pouseholo.
SOME PRACTICAL HINTS.

Lace may be washed by winding it
around bottles or sewing it on muslin
and boiling it in salt and water with
white CASTLE soap. 1t should be rinsed
in soft water after removing it from the
suds.
If the feet are tender or painful after
long walking or standing, great relief can
be had by bathing them in salt and wa
ter. A handful of salt to gallon of wa
ter is the right proportion. Have the wa
ter as hot as can comfortably be borne.
Immerse the feet and throw the water
over the legs as far as the knees with the
hands. When the water becomes too COOL
rub briskly with fresh towel. This
method, if used night and morning, will
cure neuralgia of the feet.
In ventilatng room open the Win
dows at top and bottom. The fresh air
rushes in one way while the foul air
makes its exit the other; thus you let in
a friend and eXpel an enemy.
A damp cloth enveloping the broom
head will be found desirable in removing
the dust from carpet in a room where
there may be small articles to catch the
dust made by an ordinary sweeping.
TO clean kid gloves rub them with very
slightly dampened crumbs of bread. Or
scrape French chalk upon them while on
the hands and wash them in a basin con-
tanning diluted spirits of ammonia. Some
gloves can be cleaned with milk, with
rice pulp or with turpentine.
Nothing is better for sore throat than
gargle of salt and water. 1t may be
used as often as desired, and if little is
swallowed each time it is used it will
cleanse the throat and allay the irritation.
Salt, in doses of one to four teaspoons
fuls in half pint to a pint of tepid water,
is an emetic always on hand. This is also
the antidote to be used after poisoning
from nitrate of silver while waiting for
the doctor to come.
Soda will clean furnished tin. Vinegar
and salt will clean copper. Butter is the
best polish to put into starch. Baking
soda put on burn will take out the heat
\ heated knife will cut hot bread with
out making it soggy. Oil of cedar is sure
death to vermin which infest chambers
Toilet sets and all chamber articles
should be cleaned in cold water. White
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-04-01
HOW TO MAKE A BED.

Ordinary sheets. blankets and cover
lids are too short and too narrow: they
do not admit of bed being well made.
A quarter of "A yard all round, beyond
the edge of the mattress, is necessary for
tucking in and for OVERLAPPING at the top
so that the shoulders may be covered. \
worn but clean blanket should cover the
upper mattress in winter and over this
the sheet should be spread smoothly and
adequately. The bolster, with its hem
inches below the top of the mattress so
as to better support the shoulders when
living down, and give a better pitch to
the pillows as they stand against the
head of the bedstead. Blankets to be
large enough must be of good quality:
cheap blankets are always unsatisfactory
because inadequate both in size and
warmth. Care should be taken that they
are not laid evenly together upon the bed,
but the upper one lowered from the top
of the other fully the depth of the bor-
dering. This graduates the bulk and will
prevent undue weight about the should
ers when the clothes are turned over; it
also allows of abundant margin for "tuck-
ing in at the foot; a matter of great i'm
portance, especially when bed is occu-
pied by wopersons.
The ''foot" blanket is another impor-
tant item. If the luxury of a narrow
down coverlid can be afforded for the feet
so much the better; it is comfort that
once enjoyed will never after be willing
ly dispensed with in cold weather. 1t
should not be too wide or thick as a
feather bed as they are made in Germany,
but large enough to cover the larger half
of the bed and extend over few inches
at the sides. The coverlid laid smoothly
over this, all the clothes turned down
twice at the top and the whole worked
smoothly into the sides and ends of the
bedstead, the pillows only need to be
placed in their proper position to render
the bed-making COMPLETE Demorests
Monthly.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-04-01

The natives have an ingenious way of
catching monkeys, SO simple that it may
with truth be said that the monkey
catches himself. \ narrow mouthed jar
is filled with corn. and accidentally, of
course. left on the ground. The ever
watchful monkeys quickly take note Of
this, and no sooner is the owner of the
jar ont of sight than they steal up to in
spect and discuss their windfall. Having
satisfied themselves that there is no trap.
one of them thrusts in his arm and
snatches a handful of corn. He then
finds that the mouth of the jar is too
narrow to let him withdraw his doubled
fist. but he never thinks of dropping the
corn. and out rushes the owner from be-
hind tree and treacherously slips a
moose around the victim neck. India
Cor. London Field
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-04-01

Professional humorists may be inter
ested III these two jokes: Mrs. W.,
walking on one of the wharves of New
York, loosely asked a sailor why ship
was called she. oh, said the son of
Neptune, because the rigging costs more
than the hull. - "A preacher who kept
a huckster shop was heard one day to say
to his shopman: John, have you watered
the RUM Yes. Have you sanded the
brown sugar. Yes. Have you wetted
the tobacco Yes. Then come in to
prayers. " The first was published in
the Massachusetts,, Connecticut. Rhode
Island. New Hampshire, and Vermont
Almanac in 1899 and the second in
Benjamin Vests Rhode Island AL
manac" of lS05.-Chicago Times.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-04-01

Leaving Lahore day before yesterday
afternoon, a ride of thirty-two miles
brought us to this place, Amritsar,
which name is a combination of Sanskrit
words, meaning fountain of immortal
ity." About halfway from Lahore we
passed through the small town of Atari,
the scene of one of the most memorable
cases of suffice in the history of India.
Its gray headed Sikh chief, Sham Singh,
while proceeding against sollc MOlam-
medan enemies of his faith, was sur
rounded by overpowering numbers, with
no opportunity for escape or prospect of
assistance. Rather than submit, he
clothed himself in pure white, to denote
devotion to his religion unto death. and
placing himself at the head of his follow
ers, charged the enemy with great BRAY
cry, and was killed after performing
many feats of personal gallantry. When
the news was brought to his one and only
wife, she hurriedly had her funeral pvre
prepared, and, in the presence of the Ell
tire Sikh community, mounted it COM
posedly and deliberately committed
'suttee'' allowed herself to burn to
death.
Although suffice was frequently re-
sorted to by the Hindoos, yet voluntary
examples of it We're exceedingly rare.
That thorough and beautiful love which
would make Il woman give up her
earthly life for the possibility of an i'm
mediate reunion with her husband does
not seem to have been very common in
India, for, as far as | can learn, but very
g IL
We're voluntary ones. The case men,
toned above is a well authenticated one,
though; and the loving wife passed out
of this world believing that her act would
entitle her to the Hindoo promise of an
immediate reunion in heaven with her
husband, to last as many thousands OF
years as he had hairs on his body. India
Cor. Baltimore Sun.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-04-01

Died of Bright's disease has become
familiar phrase in obituary notices. 1t
has become SO much more common that
the general impression is that the disease
is more prevalent than in former periods.
The statistics of the New York bureau of
vital statistics seem to verify this i'm
preston. In 1871 Bright's disease was
seventh in order of fatality. In 1885 it
was fifth. In 1871 the total deaths were
2G,916: of Brights disease. 1,03O. In
1885 it supplied 1904 out of total of
b, 5S2; cases of this disease increased in
fourteen years 100 per cent, while the
total number of deaths increased only 30
per cent Brooklyn Eagle.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-04-01
Not to he Blamed.

Father Taylor one Sunday afternoon
was officiating at an infant baptism, and
the church was filed with a large au-
dience as usual. The baby was restless
during the services, and when Father
Taylor took her in his arms she cried as
only infants can cry. But this didn't in
the least disturb the old minister, for,
raising the child in his arms where all
the people could see her, he said Don t
blame the child for crying, but thank the
Lord that she has such good lungs. -
Concord On. ii. Monitor.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-04-01
The Earth q Workshop.

But this revolving old planet was not
fitted up for hospital or as a resort for
pleasure seekers; it's workshop and a
school of instruction for healthy, strong
nerved men and women. And the very
rigors of climate. of which complaint is
so frequently made, constitute essential
conditions in the development of the
highest types of physical and intellectual
manhood. 1t is well recognized fact
that the human race has attained its best
estate in countries and climates where
the elements quicken mans energies,
necessitating a struggle for existence. -
Inter Ocean
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-04-01

The silent man may be overlooked now,
but he will get hearing by and by,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-04-01
Sheep Jnterest.
THE WORLDS WOOL.
From the Boston Advertiser.


From the Boston Advertiser
The recent report of the agricultural
bureau places the number of sheep in the
United States at A, 759,314, This is prob
bly, an underestimate, since it does not
Include the ranch sheep of some of the
territories; but even if the flocks of the
United States did not exceed the agricul-
ural departments figures, they would
till surpass those of most other nations,
nd would show the great importance of
he wool interests of our country. From
he latest statistics of sheep husbandry
n Australia, we find that the aggregate
lumber of sheep in the five provinces of
hat continent is 62,6O9, 667. More than
half these are in New South Wales.
In New Zealand the number of sheep
1t last accounts was 14,624,547, and in
Tasmania l, 64S ,627. In Africa the prin-
ipal wool growing colony is the Cape
bf Good Hope, where there are II, 270, I3
sheep, yielding the 'Cape WOOL which
imported into the United States to
Bome extent. There are also 5,O36,3Ol
sheep in the Orange Free State, 535, iS2
II the Natal colony and 6,056,6S3 in
Algiers. The number of sheep in Algiers
5 decreasing, the total reported in 1880
having been 6,992,2lS.
In South America there are $1,000, 900
sheep in the Argentine Republic, 15,921,-
p69 in Uruguay, 3,490,563 in Venezuela,
and 516,975 in the Falkland Isles. Unfor-
tunately, we have not been able to obtain
statistics of sheep husbandry in Brazil.
Next to Australia the severest competi-
ion of American wool-growers comes
from Uruguay and the Argentine Repub-
ic.
Much wool is brought into the United
States from Russia, but it is mostly of a
carpet grade, and does not compete with
Dur domestic teeces. The number of
Bheep in European Russia is about 49, OO0.-
poo. The number of sheep in Great
Britain and Ireland is 2S,955.2 40. Ger
many has 20,0O0,000 sheep, France 22,-
|6l6,547, and Austria-Hungary 1900, 900.
Spain has 100000 sheep. The number
|of sheep in all European countries, ac-
|cording to the latest figures obtanable, is
'212 1872 ,3G1. Canada has about 5000, 900
sheep, mostly of the long combing wool
variety.
Statistics of sheep husbandry in Asia
|are of course very IMPERFECT. The num-
Der of sheep and goats in India is 1851
1000. The number of sheep reported at
Ilast accounts in Caucasia and Transcau-
|casa in Asiatic Russia was l0.000,000.
From such statistics as are obtainable,
therefore, we should estimate the total
humber of sheep in the world as follows ::
| South America, 100000 900
Australia, including New Zealand, ll,0o00o0
Europe, 2l2,0O00OO
Africa, $4,000 900
Asia, 1000 900
United States, 45,oOOOOO
canada, 5000, 200
| All other countries, 5,O00,O 600
Total, 5l,,OOO,0OO
Many of these animals, however,
though designated as sheep, grow hair
instead of wool. The fine feeces of the
modern domestic sheep, which have taken
the place of the hair of the primitive ovine,
are largely the result of careful breeding
and culture. This is very suggestive
fact for economic writers who are inclined
to write about wool as though it grew
without any more attention.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-04-01

and schools with Professors, Principals, As
sistantS and Tutors-graiuates from Johns
Hopkins, Cornell, Harvard, Yale and almost
every other University and College in Ameri-
ca: also undergraduates of all grades; Gov
ernncsses tor families, and Music and Art
Teachers from the best Colleges and Con-er-
vatories: Institutions with all kinds OF mod
ern furniture and apparatus at lowest prices.
Organized by experienced educators. Fhcili'
ties in many RESPECTS, uneQualed by any 9th
er Bureau or school Agency. Patronage from
every quarter ct the |. :. Endorsed in 30
states. Teachers desiring positions apply at
any time: those who have positions but desire
to change the earlier they apply the better,
those who are without positions register ut
once schools in different countries open al
most every month. Additions and changes
in faculties are continually being made.
Many teachers tail to hold positions secured
them in vacations. We have continued calls
tor teachers. For Registration Blank send
stamp to the above address ut any office men
toned zone registration sufficient tor all.
References as to the Presidents character
and reputation rs an educational worker.
Bishop McTyere, President OF Vanderbilt
University; Rev. Geo. W. Price, ID. D., Pres
y. c. Y. l., Rev. W. T.. Ward, u. D., Pres
Wards seminary; Hon. W. b. Bate. GOV
Tennessee. io-u
Gin this advertisement for future reference.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-04-01
Among the EashiOnnhle..

Mr.. Swell (who has rented fashionable
apartment house)-We neend't be
ashamed of this, my dear.
Mrs Swell-No. indeed; it is perfectly
lovely, and such a fashionable locality!
Mr. Swell-That's the beauty of it.
And now, my dear, if you will send
Perkins out for loaf of bread and half u
pound of butter we will have something
to eat. New York sun.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-04-01
Foreign students in Edinburgh.

The Scottish universities are certainly
not so called because they are confined to
Scottish students. In the medical classes
at Edinburgh this year nearly as many
English as Scotch students have enrolled,
the respective numbers being rs and $50.
There are so ''medicals' from India. in
Guiding Thakoor. of Gondal. a reigning
Indian chief, 81 from Ireland. 265 from
the various British colonies. and others
from almost every country in the world.
Only 40 per cent. of the medical students
are Scottish. The total of matriculated
students is 1888. an increase of some
800 in ten years. while in twenty years
the numbers have considerably more than
doubled. 1t is not generally known that
the lord rectorship was originally institu-
ted as protection to foreign students. In
the oldest Scottish universities the stu
dents are divided for electoral purposes
into what are called nations" and the
rector is elected by majority of ma
tons, not by majority of votes. This
does not hold in Edinburgh, where the
rectorship is of very recent origin.
James Gazette.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-04-01

No doubt this is a wise remark: Polish
is not piety refinement is not religion,
manners are not morals. Nevertheless
they are not to be disparaged when they
accompany these excellent possessions.
Gospel Age.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-04-01
NOTICE-Estate of
\ Retsey DalrymDle.

The undersigned, having been appointed by
the Hon Probate Court for the District OF Adj
olson, Commissioners, to receive, examine
and adjust all claims and demands of all per
sons against the estate OF Betsey Dalrymple,
late OF w ey bridge, in said district, deceased,
and all claims exhibited in offset thereto,
hereby give notice that we will meet tor the
purposes aforesaid, at the store of NJ. r.
Sprague, Weybridge, on the Goth day of April
and 18th day OF August next. from ten O'Clock,
a m. until three o'clock, p. M each OF said
DAYS and that six months from the 23d day OF
February A. ID. 1887, is the time limited by
said Court for said creditors to present their
claims to us for examination and allowance.
Dated at Weybridge, this 5th day OF March,
4. ID. lsS1. -.
j. II. sPRAGVE, CONS.
II c. b. BU LIZARD,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-08
OFFICIAL.
QUARANTINE NOTICE.
OFFICE HEALTH OFFICER,
: axfsNrnFsfr ~ Npar III 1907

I
SAVANNAH, Ga, Aug. 30 1887. (
From and after this date, the city ordinance
which specifies the Quarantine requirements to
be most rigidly enforced.
Merchants and all other parties interested
will be supplied with printed copies of the Quar-
antine Ordinance upon application to office Of
Health Officer, and are requested to keep copy
OF this publication
From and after this date and until further no.
tice all steamships and vessels from or having
touched at South America Central America,
Mexico, West Indies. Italy, Sicily, Malta, Mar
settles and the Guinea coast of Africa. direct or
via American ports. will be subjected TO Quarnn-
tine detention and be treated as from infected
or suspected ports or localities, viz: Section 8,
Quarantine Regulations. Captains of such
vessels will have TO remain at the Quarantine
Station until their vessels are relieved.
All steamers and vessels from foreign ports
not included above direct or via American
ports whether seeking, chartered or otherwise,
Will be required to remain in quarantine until
boarded and passed by the Quarantine Officer.
Neither the captains nor any one on board Of
such vessels wiH be dIto,oed to come to the city
or land until the vessels are inspected aud
passed on the Quarantine Officer.
AS ports or localities not herein enumerated
are reported unhealthy to the Sanitary Authori-
ties, Quarantine restrictions against same will
be enforced without further publication.
The quarantine regulation requiring the flying
Of the Quarantine fda on vesseis subjected to
detention or inspection UfL be rigidlu enforced.
Notice is hereby. given that the Quarantine
Officer is instructed not to deliver letters to
sells which are not subjected TO Quarantine de-
tention unless the name Of consignee and state
ment that the vessel is ordered to some other
port appears upon the face of the envelope
This order Is made necessary in consequences Of
the enormous bulk OF drumming letters sent to
the station for vessels which are to arrive.
Ship chambers are Informed that provisions
in large quantity cannot be received at the
Quarantine Station, unless for vessels ordered
from this port. and 1t must then be- sent down
by the tug boat at the time when vessel is to be
towed TO sea. j. 7. MCFARLAND, NJ. D.,
Health Officer
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-08
THE ORIGIN OF RICE THROWING.
1t Began at the Wedding of Chao and
Peachblossom in China.

From the Chinese Times.
In the days of the Shang dynasty, some
1 800 years before Christ, there lived in the
called Chao 1t happened one day that a
Mr. P'ang came to consult the oracle, and
Chao, having OWNED by means of the
tortoise diagram. informed the trembling
P'ang that he had but six days to live
Now, however much we may trust the
sagacity and skill of our family physician,
we may be excused if, in a matter of life
and death, we call in a second doctor
for a consultation, and in such strait
it is not TO be wondered at that
Pang should repair to another source
to make sure that there was no
mistake. To the fair Peachhlossom be
went, young lady who had acquired some
reputation as a sorceress and to the tender
feminine heart unfolded the story of his
woe. Her divination yielded the same re-
suit as Chaos; in six days P'ang should die,
unless, by the exercise of her magical pow
ers, she could avert the catastrophe Her
efforts were successful, and on the seventh
day great was Chaos establishment and
still greater his modification and
rage when he met P'ang taking
his evening stroll and learned that
there lived greater magician than he.
he could put an end to his fair rivals exist
ence his reputation would be ruined. And
this is how Chao plotted against the life of
Peachblossom. He sent a go-between to
Peachblossom's parents to inquire if their
daughter was still unmarried, and,
receiving a reply in the affirmative, he
befooled the simple parents into believ-
ing that he had a son who was seek
ing wife, and ultimately he induced them
to engage Peachblossom to him in mar
riage. The marriage cards were duly inter
changed; but the crafty Chao had chosen
the most unlucky day he could select for
the wedding, the day when the Golden
Pheasant" was in the ascendant Surely as
the bride entered the red chair the spirit
bird would destroy her with his powerful
beak But the wise chblossom knew all
these things and feared MOI 81 will CO."
she said, 81 will fight and defeat him"
When the wedding morning came she gave
directions to have rice thrown out at the
door, which the spirit bird seeing made
haste to dovour, and while his attention
was thus occupied Peachblossom stepped
into the bridal chair and passed on her way
unframed. And now the ingenious reader
knows why he throws rice after the bride.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-08
A Duel Between Two Plants.
From The Journal Of Education

Some time ago my pupils were much in
terested in finding what they not inappro-
priately termed q hand-to-hand conflict
between a sumach (Rhustyphii,d) and ii
climbing bitter sweet (CelaStIus scdndenS,
Judging from appearances when found, the
sumach was about two inches in diameter
when the bitter sweet first wound its coils
about it. AS the growth of each proceeded,
these coils became tighter and tighter, cut
ting into and through the bark and growing
layer of the sumach until it seemed to be
threatened with strangulation. 1t was not,
however, TO be so easily vanquished. 1t
resolutely kept up its manufacture of new
material which, owing TO the tight embrace
of the vine, had to be distributed along a
spiral line Immediately above the coils
Just below the coils the supply appeared to
be cut Off as the trunk was then shrivelled
and in most places dead. Although
rendered unsightly, the tree presented
the curious features of having two spirals,
one of living, growing, the other Of dead
and decaying material wound about its
heart wood, so that the whole resembled a
huge auger. To avenge this deformity, the
sumach proceeded to push its new growth
out above and over the coils of the vine
until at one place it had completely encom-
passed it. The vine in turn, was now so
tightly squeezed as to be cut off from com
munication with the ground, and below this
point but little life remained. Victory now
seemed within the grasp of the sumach
The vine, however, in its last extremity
now united itself with the growing layer OF
the sumach, and thus literally drew from
the camp of the enemy whatever supplies
were needed to keep its top bright and
thrifty. At this stage the conflict was cut
short by the AK of the collector, and the
combatants locked in each others arms,
were laid away among the curiosities of a
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